A couple of years ago I put illustrated versions of Kipling's With The Night Mail and As Easy as A.B.C. on line, with some notes on their publication and variations.

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/nm-abc.pdf

As Easy as A.B.C. was serialized over two issues of ( Read more... )

I've put up the modified PDF with the colour illo and one other illo replaced by the one that was omitted ( Read more... )

I've made a few small changes, fixed a last couple of typos (I hope), and added page numbers and bookmarks.

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/nm-abc.pdf

About 4.29mb now.

If nobody has found any problems I'm going to put links on my web site etc.

later and ( Read more... )

With the Night Mail and As Easy As A.B.C. - The PDF

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/nm-abc.pdf

About 4.28mb

I think it looks OK and works pretty well, but please let me know if it fails to load properly etc.

Front and back covers are illos by me from ( Read more... )

The Aerial Board of Control's official logo, as found in the chapbook for With The Night Mail

Not sure it quite works - I read it as CAB, and the lettering style is a bit fussy, but it's the nearest we're going to get to an official logo.


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I've decided to make a PDF containing With the Night Mail and As Easy as A.B.C. Looks like it's going to come out about 60-70 letter pages (I use letter, not A4, since there's slightly less wastage printing letter on A4 paper than vice versa ( Read more... )

As well as looking at Kipling's As Easy as A.B.C., nojay also went through With the Night Mail and found a few errors. That was probably my first OCR project and it's been revised numerous times over the years, but mostly that's been adding illustrations. While fixing the problems he found, I took the opportunity to tidy the HTML a little so that it is ( Read more... )

The illustrated As Easy As A.B.C. is now on line. Comments would be greatly appreciated, especially any problems.

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/abc.htm

I'm very glad to say that the volume of The London Magazine containing As Easy as A.B.C. was finally delivered twenty minutes ago - no explanation of why it took so long, and it doesn't appear to have been damaged, opened by customs, lost, or anything like that, so I can only assume that it simply ended up on a ship that took a long time to reach ( Read more... )

Thanks to the awesome book-finding abilities of Brian from Porcupine Books WINOLJ I have just ordered a bound volume of Harmsworth's London Magazine containing the original illustrated version of Kipling's As Easy as A.B.C.. It was serialised in March-April 1912, and is one of the stories that the first Forgotten Futures release was based on. It's ( Read more... )